News gathering is not always protected

The First Amendment protects the right to publish information but doesn’t “grant blanket immunity for how that information is gathered,” says Walter Pincus in The Washington Post. If a news story contains classified information that harms national security, such as the story published by Fox News correspondent James Rosen, the reporter can be labeled a co-conspirator in criminal leak cases, Pincus says.

Reporting on criminal activity that should have sent the Cheney puppeted NEOCON Bush fraudulency to prison, enmass -Good!

Blowing up minor kerfuffles into continued attacks against a President who has been under siege, mostly because the top and bottom of the Right-wing hates the idea of a successful Black administration -Bad!

If journalists should be pilloried for anything, it is for letting Neocons under Bush get away with massive theft and even mass murder in Iraq.

“…the Right-wing hates the idea of a successful Black Administration…”

Sorry iktim, your race card has already been punched and you received your free gallon of kool-aid.

Too bad Rosen wasn’t reporting on a Dem, he might have won a pulitzer instead of being named an unindicted co-conspirator.

Risen and Eric Lichtblau were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting in 2006 for a series of controversial investigative reports that they co-wrote about the National Security Agency’s surveillance of international communications originating or terminating in the United States codenamed “Stellar Wind” and about a government program called Terrorist Finance Tracking Program designed to detect terrorist financiers, which involved searches of money transfer records in the international SWIFT database.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Risen